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The U.S. National Academy of Sciences Marks 150 Years
Founded by a young nation in the midst of a civil war, a private institution with a public purpose celebrates its sesquicentennial.
The founding of NAS in 1863. Left to right: Benjamin Peirce, Alexander Dallas Bache, Joseph Henry, Louis Agassiz, President Abraham Lincoln, Sen. Henry Wilson, Admiral Charles Henry Davis and Benjamin Apthorp Gould.
Among all the government agencies and the membership-based private organizations clustered in Washington, D.C., one group has stood between the two worlds of science and government for 150 years: the U.S. National Academy of Sciences (NAS).
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